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Helmut Newton photo archive to go on display

HELMUT NEWTON, the acclaimed German-born photographer, was finalising plans to open his own photography foundation in Berlin before he died in a car accident in Los Angeles this weekend.

More than 1,000 of Newton’s photographs and all the negatives from his archive are due to go on permanent display from this summer in the city where he was born in 1920.

Newton crashed when he apparently lost control of his Cadillac hitting a wall after leaving the Chateau Marmont hotel on Sunset Boulevard. Although the cause of death had not been determined, friends believed he had suffered a heart attack.

The photographer was famous for his erotic pictures of women, often clad in leather. He was widely acknowledged to be one of the world’s most influential photographers, but attracted criticism for “objectifying” women.

Newton left Germany during the persecution of the Jews in the late 1930s. He went to Singapore